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\section{Introduction}
Classical Cepheids present several advantageous features when compared with
field giant stars. These are illustrated by the points below:
{\em Distance indicators --} they obey to well defined optical and near-infrared
(NIR) Period-Luminosity (PL) relations and their distances can be estimated with an
accuracy of the order of a few percent (Benedict et al. 2006; Marconi et al. 2006;
Natale et al. 2007; Fouque et al. 2007). They are also the most popular
primary distance indicators to calibrate secondary indicators such as the
SN type Ia \citep{ri05}.
{\em Stellar tracers --} they are distributed across the Galactic disk, and
therefore, they can be adopted to trace the radial distribution of intermediate-age
stars \citep{k63}. In particular, they provide robust constraints on the iron and
heavy elements radial gradients \citep[][and references therein]{le07}.
{\em Bright stars--} they are bright giants that can be easily identified due to
their intrinsic variability and for which accurate photometric and spectroscopic
data can be collected.
However, Classical Cepheids also present a few drawbacks.
{\em Short lifetime --} the lifetime they spend inside the instability strip is
approximately two orders of magnitude shorter than the central hydrogen burning
\citep{bo00}. This together with the low spatial density and the high
reddening account for the limited
sample of Galactic Cepheids currently known \citep{f95}.
{\em Time series --} Accurate mean magnitudes and colors require a detailed
time sampling along the pulsation cycle. The Cepheid periods range from a few
days to hundred days. Therefore, well sampled multiband light curves require
long observing runs.
In this investigation we decide to take advantage of the Walraven photometry
for 174 Galactic Cepheids collected by Pel (1976) and by Lub \& Pel (1977).
The Walraven VBLUW photometric system was originally designed to
derive the intrinsic properties of early-type stars. The bands were
selected to measure the features of the hydrogen spectrum, and three of the five
bands are located in the ultraviolet spectral regions ($\lambda_V=$5405 \AA,
$\lambda_B=$4280 \AA, $\lambda_L=$3825 \AA, $\lambda_U=$3630 \AA,
$\lambda_W=$3240 \AA). The reader interested in a more detailed description
concerning the ingenious crystal optics filter and the instrumentation is
referred to Walraven \& Walraven (1960),
Lub \& Pel (1977), and to Pel \& Lub (2007). Because of its sensitivity to the
Balmer jump and the slopes of the Balmer and Paschen continua, the Walraven system
turned out to be also very useful for determining
the intrinsic parameters of A, F, and G-type stars.
For this reason, it has been used for the study of Galactic and Magellanic Cepheids
\citep{p76}; \citep{p81} and for field RR Lyrae stars \citep{l77}.
Observations with the Walraven five-channel photometer, attached to the 91-cm
`Lightcollector' reflector, started in 1958 at the Leiden Southern Station
in Broederstroom, South-Africa. After 20 years in South-Africa the telescope
and the photometer were moved to ESO/La Silla in Chile. The observations in the
new site started in March 1979 and continued for a dozen years until the
decommissioning of the photometer in 1991.
Thanks to the better photometric conditions of La Silla, this last phase of
the operational life of the instrument was particularly fruitful.
During 32 years of almost uninterrupted observations, a very large amount of
high-quality data was obtained for many types of stars, but the emphasis was
on OB-associations, clusters, Galactic and Magellanic Cepheids ($\sim$ 200),
Galactic RR Lyrae stars ($\sim$ 100) and faint F/G stars in the disk and in
the inner Galactic halo.

\begin{figure}
\centering
\resizebox{\hsize}{!}{\includegraphics{fig1.ps}}
\caption{From left to right light curves in the Walraven V,B,L,U,W bands
for three Cepheids. From top to bottom short, intermediate, and long period
Cepheids (see labeled values). For each band are also plotted the intrinsic
scatter of the fit with a cubic spline and the amplitude.}
\label{fig1}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
\centering
\resizebox{\hsize}{!}{\includegraphics{fig2.ps}}
\caption{
From left to right J,H,K-band light curves for four Galactic Cepheids.
The symbols are the same as in Fig. 1.
}
\label{fig2}
\end{figure}

\section{Data and Theory}

The current Cepheid sample was selected from the observing runs 1962 \citep{w64} and
1970-1971 \citep{p76} at the Leiden Southern Station (South Africa).
The sample includes 174 Galactic Cepheids and it is
82\% complete for all known Cepheids brighter than $V=11.0$ mag at minimum
and south of declination +15$^{\circ}$. Fig. 1 shows the light curves
in the five bands for three Cepheids of our sample, namely FW LUP, RZ VEL and RS PUP.
Data plotted in this figure show that individual simultaneous VBLUW measurements
present an accuracy of the order of few millimag. For each object have been
collected at least 30 phase points that properly cover the entire pulsation
cycle. This means that the intrinsic accuracy of the mean magnitudes estimated
by fitting a cubic spline is of the order of a few hundredths of magnitude.\\
In order to constrain the possible occurrence of systematic errors in the optical
photometry we are also collecting accurate multiband $J,H,K$ NIR data. At present,
accurate NIR data are available for 65 Cepheids in the Walraven sample.
For these data the uncertainties of each phase point range from $0.005$ to $0.007$ for
$K < 6$ mag, deteriorating to about $0.012$ at $K=8.6$. This implies an accuracy
in the mean magnitudes of about $0.002-0.005$, depending on the number of points.
However, the dominant uncertainty on the mean magnitudes is probably due to the
absolute calibration which is $0.01$.
For the other Cepheids we use the mean NIR magnitudes from the 2MASS catalog
\citep{cu03}. Fig. 2 shows the J, H and K-band light curves for four
Cepheids in our sample.
In order to avoid systematic uncertainties in the metallicity estimate we
adopted the reddenings given in the Catalog of Classical Cepheids
\citep{f95} and removed the objects that are members of binary systems
\citep{sza03}. We ended up with a sample of 151 Cepheids for which we
searched in the literature for iron measurements based on high resolution
spectra. We found accurate iron abundances for 48 Cepheids
(Andrievsky et al. 2002a,b,c; Andrievsky et al. 2004; Luck et at. 2006;
Mottini et al. 2006; Lemasle et at. 2007). Fortunately enough, the
calibrating Cepheids cover a broad range in metallicity, namely
-0.5 $\le$[Fe/H]$\le$0.5.

\subsection{Interstellar reddening correction}
Before any physical information can be derived from photometric
data, all colors and magnitudes have to be corrected for interstellar
reddening. In order to constrain the absorption coefficients, detailed
observations of a sizable sample of standard stars in the southern
hemisphere have been performed during three different periods
(1960-61, 1970-71, 1980-81). There are very small differences between these
three absolute calibrations of the Walraven system and transformations
are very well studied.
The zeropoint was set by the measurements of one B star passing through
the zenith in South Africa ($\omega^1$ Sco, spectral type B1.5V,
$V_J=3.96$ and $(B-V)_J=-0.04$, HD 144470). We underline that we used the
data from South Africa (1970-71) transformed into the photometric system
as valid for La Silla (1979-1991) and then we were able to apply the relations
between Johnson and Walraven systems.
On the basis of the quoted data the following relations were derived by Lub
and Pel between magnitudes, colors and color excesses in the Johnson and in the Walraven
systems:
{\small\noindent
$V_J=6.886-2.5V-0.082(V-B)$\\
$(B-V)_J=2.57(V-B)-1.02(V-B)^{2}+0.05(V-B)^{3}$\\
$E(B-V)_J/E(V-B)=2.375-0.169(V-B)$\\
$A_{V_J}/E(B-V)=3.17-0.16(V-B)-0.12E(V-B)$\\
}
while the ratios between different color excess in the Walraven system are the following:
{\small\noindent
$E(B-U)/E(V-B)=0.61$\\
$E(U-W)/E(V-B)=0.45$\\
$E(B-L)/E(V-B)=0.39$\\
}
Thanks to the fact that the Walraven photometric system includes
five bands, we can also define three reddening-free color indices.
For a standard interstellar extinction law \citep{ca89}
they are the following:
{\small\noindent
$[B-U]=(B-U)-0.61(V-B)$\\
$[U-W]=(U-W)-0.45(V-B)$\\
$[B-L]=(B-L)-0.39(V-B)$\\
}
It should be noted that, the Walraven system uses units of $log_{10}(Intensity)$
instead of magnitudes $(-2.5*log_{10}(Intensity))$, therefore
for transforming the distance moduli based on Johnson photometry
we adopt $DM_W= -0.4* DM_J$.

\begin{figure}
\centering
\resizebox{\hsize}{!}{\includegraphics{fig3.ps}}
\caption{Top: $V_J$,$B_J-V_J$ Johnson Color-Magnitude Diagram for calibrating
Cepheids (diamonds). Solid lines display evolutionary tracks at solar
chemical composition (Y=0.273, Z=0.0198) and different stellar masses
(see labeled values). Individual distances for calibrating Cepheids
were estimated using the NIR PL relations by Persson et al. (2004)
and reddening estimates provided by Fernie (1995). The dashed lines
show the edges of the instability strip. Bottom: Same as the
top, but for the Walraven $V$,$B$-bands.
}
\label{fig3}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Theory}
In order to provide an independent calibration of the MIC relation
we decided to use an homogeneous set of evolutionary models for intermediate-mass
stars with scaled-solar chemical composition. The transformation into the
observational plane was performed by adopting a set of atmosphere models
with the same chemical composition \citep{ca03}.  The reader interested
in a detailed discussion concerning the input physics is referred to Pietrinferni
et al. (2004). The adopted stellar masses range from $M=3.5 - 10.0$ $M_\odot$,
while the metal and helium content are $Z=0.001$, $0.002$, $0.004$,
$0.008$, $0.01$, $0.0198$, $0.03$ and $Y=0.246$, $0.248$, $0.251$, $0.256$,
$0.259$, $0.273$, $0.288$. Fig. 3 shows the comparison between theory and
observations for both the Johnson $V_J$,$B_J$-bands (top) and the Walraven
$V$,$B$-bands (bottom). Individual distances were estimated using NIR mean
magnitudes and the empirical NIR PL relations provided by Persson et al.
(2004) and the reddening corrections provided by Fernie (1995). The dashed
lines display the predicted first overtone
blue edge (hotter) and the fundamental red edge (cooler) of the Cepheid
instability strip \citep{bo05}.

\begin{figure}
\centering
\resizebox{\hsize}{!}{\includegraphics{fig4.ps}}
\caption{Top: Difference in iron abundance between theoretical MIC relations
and spectroscopic abundances. The left panel refers to the MIC relation based on
[L-U] color while the right one to the [V-K] color. Bottom: Same as the top, but
for the empirical MIC relations.
}
\label{fig4}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}
\centering
\resizebox{\hsize}{!}{\includegraphics{fig5.ps}}
\caption{Metallicity distribution of Galactic Cepheids based on theoretical
(top panels), $\sim 150$ objects, and empirical (bottom panels), $\sim 100$
objects. The dashed lines show the Gaussian fits, the $\sigma$ values are
also labeled.
}
\label{fig5}
\end{figure}

\section{Metallicity indices}
In order to provide a new calibration of the MIC relation for Cepheids based
on Walraven photometry we performed a multilinear regression fit between the
observed (B-L) color, spectroscopic iron abundance and an independent color
index (CI). In particular, we estimated the coefficients of the following MIC
relation:

{\small
\begin{equation}
(B-L)= \alpha+\beta [Fe/H]+\gamma CI_0+\delta [Fe/H] CI_0
\end{equation}
}
where the symbols have the usual meaning, and $CI_0$ indicates an unreddened
color index. To estimate the theoretical MIC relations we selected, for each
set of tracks at fixed metallicity (see \S 2.2), all the points located inside the
predicted edges of the instability strip. Then we performed the multilinear
regression fit (1) between the quoted metallicities and the predicted CIs.
We chose two different CIs for the multilinear regression, namely
(L-U), as originally suggested by Pel \& Lub (1978), and (V-K) since optical-NIR colors
are good temperature indicators. Moreover (L-U) is also a gravity indicator and thus
period dependent. By adopting these two colors we found that for the calibrating
Cepheids the differences between photometric and spectroscopic
abundances were $\delta[Fe/H]_{(L-U)} = $ 0.03, $\sigma_{(L-U)} = $ 0.19 and
$\delta[Fe/H]_{(V-K)} < $ 0.01, $\sigma_{(V-K)} = $ 0.11. For
theoretical calibration $\delta[Fe/H]_{(L-U)} < $0.01, $\sigma_{(L-U)} =$ 0.08 and
$\delta[Fe/H]_{(V-K)} = $0.01, $\sigma_{(V-K)} =$ 0.06. In order to constrain the possible occurrence of
systematic errors introduced by reddening corrections we estimated a new set of
MIC relations, but using reddening free color indices (see \S 2.1). These relations
provide the following differences: empirical calibrations $\delta[Fe/H]_{[L-U]} = $ 0.02,
$\sigma_{[L-U]} = $ 0.19 and $\delta[Fe/H]_{[V-K]} < $ 0.01, $\sigma_{[V-K]} = $ 0.10;
theoretical calibrations $\delta[Fe/H]_{[L-U]} < $0.01, $\sigma_{[L-U]} =$ 0.06 and
$\delta[Fe/H]_{[V-K]} = $0.01, $\sigma_{[V-K]} =$ 0.06.  We underline that these dispersions are
mainly due to the standard deviation of the multilinear regression. In particular,
we found $\sigma_{MIC([L-U])}=0.001$ and $\sigma_{MIC([V-K])}=0.006$ for theoretical
relations and $\sigma_{MIC([L-U])}=0.14$ and $\sigma_{MIC([V-K])}=0.05$ for the
empirical MICs. Fig. 4 shows the distribution of the difference
between photometric estimates and spectroscopic iron measurements for
theoretical (top panels) and empirical (bottom panels) MIC relations. Note that
the left panels display the difference for the [L-U] colors while the right one
for the $[V-K] = (V-K) - 2.9 (B-V)$.\\
Finally, we applied the new reddening free empirical MIC relations to the non
calibrating Cepheids ($\sim$ 100 objects) and estimated their individual iron
abundances. The same outcome applies to the new reddening free theoretical
MIC relations, but they have been applied to the entire sample of $\sim$ 150
Walraven Cepheids. Data plotted in Fig. 5 show that the metallicity distributions
based on theoretical and empirical MIC relations based on different color indices
do agree quite well. Moreover and even more importantly, the metallicity range
covered by the photometric abundances is, within empirical and theoretical
uncertainties, in good agreement with spectroscopic measurements (Andrievski et al.
2002; Yong et al. 2006; Lemasle et al. 2007)

\section{Discussion}
We provide new empirical and theoretical calibrations of the Walraven
metallicity index. We ended up with two independent sets of MIC relations
to estimate Cepheid iron abundances.
The comparison between iron abundance estimates based on theoretical and
empirical MIC relations brings forward two interesting findings:\\
{\em i) Empirical Calibrations --} Cepheid iron abundances based on the empirical
calibration agree quite well with spectroscopic measurements. The difference
is on average $0.02\pm0.02$ dex with an intrinsic dispersion $\sigma\sim 0.2$
dex for the relation using the [L-U] reddening free color and $0.001\pm0.002$ dex
with $\sigma\sim0.10$ dex for the relation using the [V-K] reddening free color.\\
{\em ii) Theoretical Calibration --} Iron abundances based on the theoretical
MIC relations agree very well with spectroscopic measurements. The difference
is on average $<0.001$ dex with an intrinsic dispersion $\sigma=0.06$ dex for
the relation using the [L-U] reddening free color and $0.01\pm0.02$ dex with
$\sigma=0.07$ dex for the relation using the [V-K] reddening free color.

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Special reportMar 3rd 2007 edition
Baby, look at you now
The South has shed some of its bad habits, but none of its charm
IRKED by outsiders' condescension, Mississippi put out some state-boosting advertisements last year. "Yes, we can read," says one. And then, over pictures of William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty and other local literary luminaries: "A few of us can even write."
Shoot, batter, deep-fry
It is a smart piece of marketing, though anyone who actually reads Faulkner will find him horribly gloomy about his home region. Much of the southern literary canon sprang from native writers' fury at the backwardness and injustice they saw all around.
The South's artistic output has not necessarily improved in recent decades, but the life it depicts certainly has. Contrast, for example, Faulkner's 1929 novel "The Sound and the Fury" with "Hillbilly Deluxe", a recent country-music hit. In the novel, an aristocratic family crumbles into financial ruin and utter dysfunction. In the song, some good ol' boys drive around in enormous pick-up trucks having a splendid time. One cannot help thinking that a region where blue-collar workers own $25,000 vehicles must be doing quite well.
In the past half-century, the South has come further than any other American region. That is partly because it was such a mess during segregation, but also because so many southerners have since tried so hard to make integration work. The South today is rich and peaceful. Black southerners are masters of their own fortunes. Race relations are often edgy, but seldom flare into violence. The civil-rights movement swept away many southern traditions, but none that anyone should mourn.
Some think that the South is losing its distinctiveness. That is true, up to a point. Southerners are now more likely to live in suburbs than in shacks, to pick stocks instead of cotton, and to wear shoes. But "the persistence of the cultural South does not require that southerners stay poor and rural," says John Shelton Reed, a sociologist. "Indeed, poor folks can't afford some of its trappings." Fishing tackle and rifle scopes are expensive.
The southern traditions that deserve to survive mostly have, and will continue to do so. Southern hospitality is still gracious. Southerners are surely more polite than of old, if you take account of how whites address blacks. The religious faith that animates southern life is undimmed. Indeed, white southern Christianity seems more Christian since its preachers stopped preaching white supremacy.
In a world where everyone is howling for attention, it helps if your home region has a recognisable brand. The South certainly has. It spawned jazz, NASCAR stock-car racing, Elvis and the Dukes of Hazzard. Some of its offerings, such as Coke, Wal-Mart and CNN, are so familiar that people think of them as American rather than southern. But the appeal of others is based at least in part on a romantic image of the South as a place of song, flavour and charm.
Song, flavour and charm are not enough, however. To catch up with the rest of America economically, the South also needs a better-educated workforce. Too many southern schools fail to prepare children for a world in which well-trained brains are more richly rewarded than brawn. It is encouraging that nearly every southern policymaker recognises this problem. But that is only the first step towards solving it. And reactionary educational bureaucrats still block the door to reform.
The South's vices are America's, exaggerated. Racism still festers. The region is a shade more violent than the rest of America, and much more so than Europe or Japan. It also carried out 44 of the 53 executions in America last year. On the other hand, what other region with such a turbulent history is now so pleasant to live in? The most convincing retort to Dixie's critics is also America's. Just as those who doubt the vitality of the American Dream need only look at the queues for green cards, so those who scoff at Dixie should watch America's internal migration. In 2004-05 some 1.3m people moved to the South from other parts of America. Many more trekked up, uncounted, from Mexico. And all who come, come voluntarily.
Goodbye to the blues the American South
Goodbye to the blues
The central question
Doing it by the book
The art of the possible
It's the business
Fixing Dixie's tricksy schools
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline "Baby, look at you now"

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Another week, another episode of the As Yet Unnamed Theatre Podcast. This week we cast our eyes other musicals, early Russian naturalism and ancient Greek tragedy. An eclectic mix as ever.
Plays under discussion are Bakkhai, 3 Days in the Country and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Joining our host, Tim Watson, was JohnnyFox, PaulInLondon, Nick from Partially Obstructed View, and Gareth James.
Warning: This episode contains plenty of Ben Whishaw related discussion.


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USA: 19th Century
A collection of articles:
Note - these are not just lists of 'famous vegetarians' - they are people with a view on the subject, and the articles explain whether they put those veiws into practice.
Rev.William Metcalfe (17??-1862)
Sylvester Graham (1795-1851)
Español - Sylvester Graham
William Andrus Alcott (1798-1859)
Bronson Alcott (1799-1888)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Mary Gove Nichols (1810-1884)
Russell Trall (1812-1877)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Español - Henry David Thoreau
Ellen G. White (1827-1915)
Español - Ellen G. White
Henry S. Clubb (1827-1922)
Jacksonian Veg: Couldn't stomach pork & whisky - 1830s USA, by Karen Iacobbo, 2001
American Physiological Society - founded by William Alcott and Sylvester Graham
The American Vegetarian Society (1850-1865)
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943)
The New York Vegetarian Association
Vegetarian Festival in New York
Ralph Waldo Trine (1866-1958)
Vegetarian Society of America
Chicago Vegetarian Society
Battle Creek, Michigan, Vegetarian Society
Portland, Oregon, Vegetarian Society
3rd International Vegetarian Congress - Chicago, USA
A Visit to America - by the Rev. James Clark, Vice President of the Vegetarian Society (UK)
Food, Home and Garden (link to archive.org) - Journal of the Vegetarian Society of America Vols I-III, 1897-99
History of Vegetarian Societies in North America (1837-1908)
IVU Manager's blogs
Veganism from 1806 - a brief timeline summary
Sylvester Graham - the original American vegan baker
Taking the Waters - transatlantic pioneer plant-food doctors
Bronson Alcott - American pioneer vegan
Henry David Thoreau and the Roots of Plantism
The First Vegan Cookbook - New York 1874
Complete Old Books
History of the Philadelphia Bible-Christian Church from 1817 to 1917 (PDF 2mb) pub.1922
A Defence of the Graham System of Living: Or, Remarks on Diet and Regimen. Dedicated to the Rising Generation (link to archive.org), by Sylvester Graham New York, 1835
Lectures on the Science of Human Life (link to archive.org) by Sylvester Graham, pub. by William Horsell (see below) London 1854
The philosophy of sacred history considered in relation to human aliment and the wines of Scripture (link to archive.org) - by Sylvester Graham, edited by Henry S. Clubb, 1859 - by Sylvester Graham, edited by Henry S. Clubb, pub. W. Horsell, London, 1859
Lectures to ladies on anatomy and physiology (link to archive.org) by Mary Gove Nichols, Boston, 1842 - many references to the vegetable diet.
Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands (1843) (link to archive.org) compiled by Clara Endicott Sears with Transcendental Wild Oats (1876) by Louisa May Alcott, 1915 edition
Religion, Natural and Revealed (link to archive.org): by Orson S. Fowler, New York, 1st pib. 1844, 10th edition 1848 p.136: Were a flesh diet productive of no other evil consequence than lowering ... benevolence that alone should forever annihilate so barbarous a practice'.
Physiology, animal and mental (link to archive.org) by Orson S. Fowler, New York, 1847, 5th edition 1851 (half of Fowler & Wells, NY, which published many of the veg-related books on this page).
The Hydropathic Encyclopedia Vol.2 (link to archive.org) by Russell Trall, New York, 1851 Trall was a founder member of the American Vegetarian Society in 1850.
Hydrotherapy or The Water-Cure (link to archive.org) by Joel Shew, New York 1851. Shew was a Vice-president of the American Vegetarian Society.
Philosophy of Health: Natural Principles of Health and Cure (link to archive.org ) by Larkin Baker Coles M.D. Boston, first pub. 1848 - 26th revised edition 1851 (claims 28,000 sold) p.51 The Quality of Foods (promotes vegetable diet)
Recollections of a busy life (link to archive.org) by Horace Greeley (1811-1872) pub.1868 - editor of the NY Tribune and a vegetarian from about 1835. p.98: Chapter VIII - Temperance in all things
Horace Greeley Voice Of The People (link to archive.org) by William Harlan Hale, 1950.
Walden (link to archive.org) by Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), first pub.1854. This edition with intro by Will H. Dircks, 1886.
Life and writings of Henry David Thoreau (link to archive.org) by Henry S. Salt, witten 1890 - 1896 edition.
Thoreau's philosophy of life, with special consideration of the influence of Hindoo philosophy (PDF 11mb) by Helena A. Snyder, Dissertation, Heidelberg University, 1902. p.20 Absitence from meat eating
Health: Its Friends and Foes (link to archive.org) by Reuben D. Mussey M.D., LL.D, Boston, 1862. p.169: Chapter VIII - Man by nature a vegetable eater - vegetarianism
The stomach: its disorders and how to cure them (link to archive.org) by J. H. Kellogg, Battle Creek, 1896
The Golden Age Cook Book (link to archive.org) by Henrietta Latham Dwight, New York, 1898
Every living creature; or, Heart-training through the animal world (link to archive.org) by Ralph Waldo Trine, 1899
The Vivisection Question (link to archive.org) articles from 1880 to 1900 compiled by Albert Leffingwell M.D, 1901


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How We Train
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Greening the College Campus – Phase II
With the expansion and growth of the College's learner programmes and service delivery, Phase II of the College's infrastructure development commenced in 2015. The main purpose of the Phase II infrastructure development is to increase the training capacity of the SAWC, including the provision of staff housing and offices, while ensuring the greening of the College and an overall reduction of maintenance requirements of the SAWC.
This followed the signing of the finance agreements for the generous grant received from the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation (BMZ) through the German corporation Kreditsanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW). The initial construction of the College was also made possible by BMZ via KfW facilitated by WWF South Africa.
As part of the Phase II Project, 2016 saw a handover to Project Manager, Rory Allardice supported by Sharon Humphries as his PA and Compliance Officer. This essentially separated the College's operational and maintenance requirements from infrastructure development, albeit that the roles are mutually supportive. Key staff turnover during a project is always difficult, but the College mitigated these changes by sagacity in anticipation. The appointment of an experienced compliance officer also brought the project, and the SAWC as a whole, firmly in line with legal, safety and environmental compliance requirements. Following the resignation of Andre Cornelius, Executive Manager Operations with effect 1 November 2016, the maintenance role was taken over by Kobus du Plessis.
Waste water and effluent treatment and the supply of fresh water still remained the priority activity: Infrastructure for the treatment of waste water has achieved a stable situation with plans to treat the waste water to a state where it can be used for irrigation have been set in place. The Phase II team continue to strive towards better waste water treatment.
The projects being tackled are both environmentally friendly and innovative. Old technologies using modern materials and techniques are being used to keep the buildings cool in summer and warm in winter. The lab and higher education offices will be a state of the art building when completed with impressive rammed earth walls and high wooden ceilings. Air flow is guided through the building with vents in strategic places.
The new Sustainable Use and Field Guiding lecture block when completed will include a loading room, lecture room and an office, as well as a cistern has uniquely been built underneath it. This will not only trap rain water to supplement the College's water supply but will also act as the source of water for evaporative cooling. Air is channelled over the water in the cistern, cooling it and thereafter pumping it through ducting in the building using the roof space as a source of energy to act as a heat pump. The new general purpose lecture room cum conferencing hall is being built using a Lego-type interlocking hollow block. In this building too an evaporative cooling system using charcoal will be introduced.
On completion of the project, the entire campus will also be game fenced with electric fencing to the standard required by the Kruger National Park. The old walkway between reception and the resource centre will be converted into offices and will include ablution facilities and a seminar room. One of the most important innovations, which will result from the Phase II development, is the replacement of the thatch roofs with a product called Harvey Tile. This is basically a metal tile coated with gravel to give it a very neat and natural look. Introducing Harvey Tile will substantially reduce insurance premiums on the College buildingss, which will virtually eliminate the constant maintenance that thatch demands.
Developments at the Field Ranger's Training camp are complete with the two lecture halls becoming functional. Other areas completed included the staff houses. The six new single quarters, which replace the old VIP units, will be built to a high standard.
Training contractors in new and innovative building methods has been very rewarding because of the way they have grasped the opportunity to learn new techniques. As part of the Phase II Project the College has engaged with 11 villages under Chief Mnisi. To fairly appoint subcontractors representing all the communities, a community committee was elected by community members. Criteria was set to enable community members to benefit from the subcontracted services required which further resulted in the employment of skilled and semi skilled labourers from the communities.
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Q: If Statement based on SIFT Key Point Matches in Python I'm in the process of developing a Flask Python application that's able to find a logo within different background images. The goal is to have a solution that states "yes, the logo is in the background", or "no, it doesn't look like the logo is in the background". I'm utilizing the SIFT package to match keypoints between the logo and the image with the logo in the background.
I want to figure out how I can write an IF statement that's able to deliver the message above depending on the keypoints. Is there anyone that can give me guidance on the first steps of doing this? I'll attach the code to this message (note that the function should have an indent there):
@app.route('/identify/<filename>')
def identify(filename):
""" After uploading the image,
show the identification of the uploaded image
"""
# TODO: Logic to load the uploaded image filename and identify other images
image_path = os.path.join(app.config['UPLOAD_FOLDER'], filename)
image_url = url_for('images', filename=filename)
background_image = cv2.imread(image_path)
background_image = cv2.cvtColor(background_image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)

#still need to figure out how to load a second photo of the user's choice
#loading in the photo to find within the uploaded photo
logo = cv2.imread("chevy-open-road-logo-300.png")
logo = cv2.cvtColor(logo, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)

#creating a copy and implementing a SIFT Image Matching method
background_image_copy = background_image.copy()

#sift
sift = cv2.xfeatures2d.SIFT_create()

background_keypoints, background_descriptors = sift.detectAndCompute(background_image_copy, None)
logo_keypoints, logo_descriptors = sift.detectAndCompute(logo, None)

#feature matching
bf = cv2.BFMatcher(cv2.NORM_L1, crossCheck=True)

matches = bf.match(background_descriptors,logo_descriptors)
matches = sorted(matches, key = lambda x:x.distance)

#img = BytesIO()
image_match = cv2.drawMatches(background_image_copy, background_keypoints, logo, logo_keypoints, matches[:45], logo, flags=2)

plt.imshow(image_match), plt.show()

'''
#Converting the plot to PNG image
plt.savefig(img, format='png', bbox_inches='tight')
img.seek(0)
plot_url = base64.b64encode(img.getvalue()).decode()
'''

'''
#Printing the number of keypoints detected in the training image
x = str(len(background_keypoints))

#Printing the number of keypoints detected in the logo image
y = str((len(logo_keypoints)))

# Printing total number of matching points between the training and logo images
z = str((len(matches)))
'''

return render_template('identify.html',
image = image_url#, plot_url=plot_url
#x=x, y=y, z=z
)

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A Quantum Computer: a reality or a hype?
"On Friday, December 21, 2018, the President signed into law:
H.R. 6227, the "National Quantum Initiative Act," which establishes a National Quantum Initiative Program to accelerate the development of quantum information science and its technology applications;"
Above is the direct quote from
(this is the link).
"The new law, called the National Quantum Initiative Act, allocates up to $1.2 billion in funding to keep American quantum information science competitive on the global scale" (quote from GizModo).
One of the direct goals of this bill is to energize the development of a practical and functioning quantum computer.
The development of a quantum computer has become "an arms race" between all major countries.
Although, some scientists are skeptical about the whole idea (it has been around for more than thirty years with a very little progress), possible outcomes of having a functioning quantum computer may be extremely rewording – scientifically and technologically.
As I see it, the situation is similar to the widely spread excitement after the discovery of the first high temperature superconductors in 1986. Everyone expected an explosion in the applications, including every-day devices. That, however, has not happened. Superconductors functioning at room temperature still don't exist. Existing high temperature superconductors are highly high maintained ceramic materials which cannot be simply made in a wire, like copper. Even getting funding for a theoretical research in the field has become very difficult because no one believes anymore that it can be "easily" done. But, high temperature superconductors still have found their use, and the research in the field is still alive.
The situation with quantum computers today is similar to the situation with high temperature superconductors thirty years ago, because fairly recently small but functioning quantum computers have been "discovered", i.e. built.
How to build a quantum computer?
1. We need to develop a quantum system, i.e. a system composed of microscopic objects which obey laws of quantum mechanics (usually an array of superconductive rings, or atoms), that satisfies specific conditions:
(a) we know its properties, specifically its Hamiltonian;
(b) we can define a state of this system;
(c) we can measure a state of this system;
(d) we can predict the evolution of states of this system (that is what Hamiltonian is for).
(e) hopefully, states of this system may be related to some important aspects of our macroscopic life, for example, large numbers.
When a quantum computer is built, we set it to a desired initial state, measure the final state, and use the information about the final state to extract information we need, based on the assumption that the evolution was happening according to our expectation.
The problem, though, is that because quantum systems are very sensitive to noise, experience so-called decoherence, and other factors, some physicists do not believe in the feasibility of an actual practical quantum computer. I am not a physicist (I'm in education), but I am with the sceptics. Even ninety years after the development of the theory of quantum world (quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, the standard model) physicists still disagree on the foundation of that theory. There are still different interpretations of what quantum mechanics tells us about the world. Building a quantum computer on a shaky theoretical foundation does not seem to me like something probable.
This situation reminds me the current situation in the field of artificial intelligence. Scientists still disagree on what intelligence is, and yet tech entrepreneurs are trying to build its artificial model.
But the main point of this piece has nothing to do with quantum computing.
One of the common examples and a strong motivation for the development of a quantum computer is that it will allow to brake large numbers into its prime multiples, and also searching large databases much faster than a regular computer.
So, why not develop a large database of prime numbers and their products? Instead of actually braking down a large number into its prime multiples, just find that number in a database, and use already know factors? Turns out that database would have been way too large, simply impossible to be created.
The next question is why don't put some extra funding into the number theory? The Fermat's Last Theorem has been proved. Maybe with some extra push, someone will finally find a general equation for prime numbers? That could help with decryption problem maybe even faster than development of a quantum computer.
Some pieces on the foundations of quantum mechanics or other mysterious features of the universe:
The Core Assumption of Every Known Single-Photon Experiment Is Wrong
Killing The Schrodinger's Cat: at last and for good: part I
Killing The Schrodinger's Cat: at last and for good: part II
Freeing The Schrodinger's Cat: Solving The Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics: part I
Freeing The Schrodinger's Cat: Solving The Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics: part II
Thinking about the origins of the Quantum Mechanics.
Dark matter, dark energy and light-vacuum interactions
The Uncertainty Principle: a contemporary formulation.
By Dr. Valentin Voroshilov at December 29, 2018
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While the tooth is anesthetized, Dr. Kamins will prepare the tooth by removing any decay and shaping the surface to properly fit the crown. Once these details are accomplished, your temporary crown will be placed with temporary cement and your bite will be checked to ensure you are biting properly.
At your second appointment, your temporary crown will be removed, the tooth will be cleaned, and your new crown will be carefully placed to ensure the spacing and bite are accurate. A few adjustments may be necessary to optimize the color and fit of your new crown. Dr Kamins has a small porcelain oven in the office to meticulously optimized the esthetics and function of your new restoration.


Hi, what manufacturer of CA do you use? I don't rate it any more and was coming to the conclusion that it had become 'watered down' here in the UK to either make production cheaper or for it to be safer. It no longer seems to have a strong bond or take quickly. I have always used Loctite, prism 406 if I can get it. We used to use this where I used to work and it actually held drive belts together on a beer bottling inspector for over a week till parts came. Now it won't even hold plastic.
I use a variety of CA types and manufacturers. The brand I used for that operation was Hot Stuff's Super "T" CA. I believe that came from Lee Valley. I am no expert on CA glues but one thing I know is that they do have a shelf life, generally considered about one year. I imagine they last longer in dry climates.
We used to use Loctite and had their representative come to site who described how best to use and keep it. Since then I have always kept it in a fridge apart from one for rubber that is kept in the freezer. I then put the small amount to be used on a tile and return the bottle to the fridge. I have kept it this way without it going off for many years. However, I have tried new bottles and doesn't seem any better. Just seems you have to hold things together for ages before it sets and then it is still easy to pull apart. I know the way I use or store it has not changed.
There is also a purple bottle called Safe ZAP which is supposed to be "fumeless" and is medium viscosity. I have not tried this one.
The viscosity obviously affects the drying time but it also influences the gap filling ability.
Thanks Don. Best of luck with all that coppering and rigging on the Stefano.
I will be on shore leave for a month starting Monday so I want to show the extent of my progress before I leave. I managed to make all the spars. You will notice that the boom is slightly different boxwood. The lighter stuff is Castello, just like I used for the bowsprit. I had originally planned to make all the spars out of boxwood but never checked to see if my stock was long enough. Alas I decided to draw the line at the boom which shall remain unpainted (poly) which I rationalize will provide balance to the bowsprit. 😀 I'll paint the yards and the designated portion of the mast/topmast black and maybe the gaff but if that doesn't look right I'll remake the gaff out of boxwood and leave that unpainted.
If anyone could enlighten me as to how to make the mast cheeks it would be appreciated. I can understand the two dimensional drawing but without hollowing out the portions that sit against the mast I don't see how they will fit properly? It's probably right in front of me.
Looks good Ian, where are you getting boxwood from? Typically the area on the mast where the cheeks are attached to the mast is squared off or at least flattened off on two sides for the cheeks. Check out the plans for the Stefano foremast.
As you can see two sides are flattened off for the cheeks to sit on. It looks like in the picture the top end of your mast is squared off, do the cheeks not sit there?
Don, as usual thanks for being so helpful. I was a little stuck because the Cheerful plan doesn't show the mast sides being inset nor the cheeks being mated to the mast. However upon closer inspection of Chuck's pictures I see they are indeed inset.
I have been totally negligent in providing any sort of build log - I am sorry about that. However I'm calling this project done. I will have to figure our a stand down the road.
Thanks for following. If there are other pictures you would like me to show I am happy to do that.
Boy she does look pretty. You did an absolutely masterful job on the Cheerful project. I do hope you enjoyed building it!!! One of the best Cheerfuls I have seen and I have seen a whole lot of them.
Great job! You should be very proud!
Thank you B.E., Chuck and Rusty! It has been an enjoyable and an educational build that benefitted tremendously from your own Cheerful efforts. Chuck it is a beautiful design and your mini kits were indispensable. Thanks to all of you for the likes and following this build.
Lastly, I have completed the stand. I routed an inlay into a piece of maple and applied several coats of wipe on poly. Because I didn't have the foresight to install bolt holes into the keel I used some threaded brass rod with acorn nut heads (on starboard side) to secure the assembly. Probably not as strong as the traditional method but the ship will be housed in an acrylic display case and shielded from unfortunate nudges.
Amazing build Ian!!! You are da Master. Going to be hard to ever go back good old walnut after being spoiled on all that boxwood.
Take Care my friend. What's up next?
Thanks everyone for the likes!
Gregory: thanks and good luck!
Don: where have you been? I know I'm speaking for many mates when I say I really miss your updates and beautiful work! What's next? David Antscherl's Hayling Hoy.
Outstanding Cheerful and I am eagerly looking forward to a Hayling Hoy.


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360-Degree Panorama Takes You Inside Prague's Off-Limits Baroque Library
Evan Rail
PRAGUE — On a brisk but beautiful February afternoon, Jeffrey Martin and his robotic camera stand inside one of the Czech capital's most gawk-worthy attractions: the gloriously decorated Philosophical Hall, a Baroque reading room in the city's 868-year-old Strahov monastery library.
Though he's a photographer, the 34-year-old Martin doesn't seem to notice the rare books, ornate marquetry or heroic statues in the recently restored hall. He doesn't even glance at the historical figures in the massive fresco — depicting "the intellectual progress of mankind" — on the ceiling.
Instead, he is listening, carefully following the click-focus-click rhythm of his robot-controlled Canon 550D.
"I've gotten pretty good at recognizing the pattern," he says. "If the shutter doesn't click, I can jump up and hit pause."
Occasionally his robotically controlled camera can't find a focus within the few seconds the GigaPanBot has allotted for each shot in the dim indoor setting. So Martin listens, jumping up once in a while for a do-over, knowing that later he'll merge a few thousand of these pictures into what he's calling the world's largest indoor photograph: a 40-gigapixel, 360-degree image of the hall that weighs in at 283 GB.
The finished Strahov library panorama, released Tuesday on Martin's website, is a zoomable, high-resolution peek inside one of Prague's most beautiful halls, a repository of rare books that is usually off-limits to tourists (a few of whom can be seen standing behind the velvet rope at the room's normal viewing station).
Martin's panorama lets you examine the spines of the works in the Philosophical Hall's 42,000 volumes, part of the monastery's stunning collection of just about every important book available in central Europe at the end of the 18th century — more or less the sum total of human knowledge at the time.
Martin got special permission from the library to pursue the project. He didn't, however, get permission to wear his street shoes indoors. He's complemented his fingerless gloves and down vest — it's cold in here — with a pair of oversize, felt-soled slippers for the sake of the polished parquet floor.
To capture the images, the German-made GigaPanBot sends the camera on a pattern that starts at the very top of the library, going back and forth in rows, working its way downward over five days of shooting.
'That's one advantage of shooting in an 18th-century library — my camera is the least valuable thing in the room.'
"I started from the ceiling, and by the time they kicked me out at 5 p.m. the first day, I had done maybe 20 percent of the hall," Martin says. "So I hit pause and left everything right where it was until the next morning. That's one advantage of shooting in an 18th-century library — my camera is the least valuable thing in the room."
The next step: turning 2,947 individual shots into a single picture. It'll take a day of mostly automated post-processing to correct colors and exposures from RAW image files.
"That dark corner and the bright ceiling are shot at the same exposure," Martin says. "My goal is to get something that doesn't have dark spots and bright spots — and also something that looks natural."
During assembly of the massive panorama, Martin's program will take more than 111 hours to stitch everything together.
"When you give it 10 pictures, it fits them together no problem," Martin says. "But when you give it 3,000 images, there's bound to be some issues." After the initial layout, Martin will spend another 20 hours fixing a misaligned bookshelf, a few holes in the floor and other errors.
From inside the library, you can see why historians, scholars and travelers would flock here. A giant, four-volume set marked Musée Français, contained in a standalone, statue-topped wooden case, is believed to be one of only four extant copies. It's a gift from Marie Louise, the second wife of Emperor Napoleon. (The French emperor is said to have had the rest of the print run destroyed because it contained evidence that certain Louvre treasures had been plundered from Italy.)
The room's walnut paneling, gilt laurels and Escher-like inlaid marquetry make quite an impression. Beyond the rare tomes, guests who look carefully at the bookshelves might spot two hidden doors, masked with fake book spines, that lead to secret stairways — something you probably won't catch in Martin's panorama.
In other regards, viewing Martin's web-based panorama might actually be better than an actual visit, especially when it comes to exploring the fresco high above the books. Completed in 1794, Franz Anton Maulbertsch's trompe l'oeil ceiling depicts dozens of historical and religious figures, ranging from Noah and Moses to the French encyclopedists.
In real life, from 45 feet down, you might wish you could hit Shift to zoom.

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Investigators take down the Avalanche botnet
December 2, 2016 | 10:27
Tags: #avalanche #botnet #cybercrime #insecurity #investigation #police #security
Companies: #eurojust
Avalanche, claimed to be one of the largest malware management platforms in history, has been dismantled in the culmination of a four-year investigation by an international team.
Following more than four years of research the Public Prosecutor's Office Verden, the German Lüneburg Police, the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the US Department of Justice, the FBI, Eurojust, Europol, and unnamed 'global partners' have reportedly shut down the Avalanche malware network. Involving prosecutors and investigators spread over 30 countries, the investigation has resulted in five arrests, 37 premises being searched, and the seizure of 39 servers, while a further 221 servers were deactivated and infections identified across 180 countries. The investigation also resulted in over 800,000 domains used for Avalanche being 'seized, sinkholed, or blocked.'
The Avalanche network, the investigators claim, had been running since 2009 as a command and control system for malware, phishing, and spam activities, and was responsible for sending out more than a million email messages every week. Its operation came to the attention of German police in 2012 when it was traced as the source of a particularly successful ransomware attack, and has been estimated to have controlled a botnet of 500,000 infected machines at its peak.
'Avalanche has been a highly significant operation involving international law enforcement, prosecutors and industry resources to tackle the global nature of cybercrime. The complex trans-national nature of cyber investigations requires international cooperation between public and private organisations at an unprecedented level to successfully impact on top-level cybercriminals,' claimed Rob Wainwright, director of Europol, of the investigation. 'Avalanche has shown that through this cooperation we can collectively make the Internet a safer place for our businesses and citizens.'
'Today marks a significant moment in the fight against serious organised cybercrime, and exemplifies the practical and strategic importance of Eurojust in fostering international cooperation,' added Eurojust president Michèle Coninsx. 'Together with the German and US authorities, our EU and international partners, and with support from Eurojust and Europol's EC3, Avalanche, one of the world's largest and most malicious botnet infrastructures, has been decisively neutralised in one of the biggest takedowns to date.'
More information on the investigation is available from Eurojust's official press release.
Avast 2017 launches with 'Game Mode' feature
Passive Mode, too.
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Google launches Project Wychewood security toolkit
Aims to find flaws in crypto libs.
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Dyn downgrades Mirai botnet size estimate
From 'tens of millions' to 100,000.


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Highlights: Mexico's finals are set, and they have a familiar feel
By Richard FarleyMay 14, 2012, 8:30 AM EDT
We'll have more on this later today, but before you get too deep into your Monday, it's time to get you up-to-date on Mexico's playoffs, with the Primera Division having ID'd the two clubs that will compete for the Clausura's title.
The process played out on Sunday night, starting at the Technologico in Monterrey, where the CONCACAF champions welcomed a Club América side that was held to a scoreless draw mid-week at Estadio Azteca.
That scoreline held for less than eight minutes.
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Jose Bastanta and Aldo De Negris put Monterrey on the verge of their third title in six tournaments, eliminating America 2-0 (agg.).
If Monterrey's going to pull off their league-CONCACAF double, they're going to have to slow down the region's deepest attack – a team that did their own Manchester City/Montpellier impression.
We pick it up at 1-1, with Apertura champions Tigres (in yellow) pouncing early:
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With Tigres' stingy playoff defense staked to a two-goal lead by Hector Mancilla, UANL looked destined for a second straight final. Amazingly, Tigres cracked at the finish line, allowing 86th and 89th minute goals to Oribe Peralta. Tied 3-3, the top-seeded Guerreros got through on the first tiebreaker: being the lower seed.
Like Monterrey, Santos are no strangers to the final. They've made three of the last four, but on the verge of becoming Mexico's answer to the Buffalo Bills, the Guerreros have lost each time.
The second of those losses was to Monterrey in the 2010 Apertura. Mix in this year's CONCACAF Champions League final and this will be the third time in two years the Rayados and Guerreros will play 180 minutes with silverware at stake.
Despite the redundancy, nobody's looking at this as a Chelsea-Liverpool situation. These are clearly Mexico's two best teams. Monterrey are confederation champions and possess the most talented (and, of late, the most decorated) team in the region. While the Guerreros lack Monterrey's balance, they feature unmatched attacking talent – firepower that can take apart anybody (ask Tigres).
Expect the Rayados to be slight favorites. Their pedigree and Champions League's results have earned that, but with Santos stinging from two consecutive tournament final losses, expect the Guerreros to be ready to toss a huge chip from their shoulder and into the fray.


The standard time and place for talks is MCS 220 at 2pm. Some talks will be at other times such as a student thesis defense.
11/14/2018 Dr. Sharif Mahmood Causal Inference in Non-randomized Experiment: an Assessment of the Performance of LCM.
10/17/2018 Dr. Jeffrey Beyerl The Riemann Hypothesis: What Exactly Does It Claim?
(The data from 2012-2014 was lost).


This was agreed as the V5 document is still stuck at the DVLA and will not be available for another 3 weeks. Wonderful Series 3 109 Safari. A mechanically sound example, new MOT in July proves that. Fitted with a 200tdi unit, so will easily keep up with modern traffic and will actually go faster if you are brave enough. Features, H4 headlight conversion, so you can see in the dark.
Original cloth trim, good headlining apart from two little tears. All body panels, roof and rear door, are very good, the passenger doors and all window channels need attention, 2 brand new front doors are supplied. Chassis is good having had a new outrigger fitted for the MOT, the bulkhead is sound in the right places, but will need a top repair panel around the vents. The only advisory was the rear Cross member, but passed as there is no tow bar, A brand new rear cross member is also supplied. Has a cubby box with Sony stereo.
All round a fantastic opportunity for a rolling restoration that will make a great investment. Viewing and test drives are welcome, ask any questions and I'll do my very best to answer them.
Collection would be from CB24 8AJ. Just to answer a few common questions Yes there is pale blue paint.
The original colour was County Brown, and on her return to the UK the supplying garage, Bass, obviously sprayed her back to the original brown to match the bits that hadn't been sprayed blue. Yes there is a big folder of bills and previous MOTs and other documents. Yes all the tyres are good and hold air.
No she doesn't seem to leak oil. New swivel joints fitted, new master and slave clutch cylinders, not brand new but brake master and slaves have been replaced. Brand new fuel tank and still has the old reserve tank under the driver seat. 3 full sets of keys. Further update, Mileage on speedo 52K (for what that's worth). He spent a long time under the Landy, tapping all parts of the chassis with a small hammer. The good news is he pronounced the chassis sound except for a very small 1/2p sized hole. Just needs a good clean and waxoil and should be good for a few more years. That's the good news, now the irritating bit.
The previous owner didn't send in his V5c, and nothing can be done for 4 weeks in this case. I have since filled in the V62 and sent off relevant docs to DVLA to get V5c in my name this takes 6 weeks.
However the docs came back to me as I hadn't completed the form. The item "Land rover series 3 Safari station wagon" is in sale since Sunday, September 23, 2018. This item is in the category "Cars, Motorcycles & Vehicles\Classic Cars\Land Rover". The seller is "ithaka2002" and is located in Cambridge.


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Q: Сan't get tiles using mapbox from geoserver I ran into a problem that I can not correctly connect to the Mapbox. At the front, he gives this error.image of frontend Mapbox error.
in the logs on the server, I get this: image of GeoServer logs
I connect to the geoserver like this:
    <!DOCTYPE html>

  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
  <title>Mapbox GL</title>

  <link href='https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/v0.52.0/mapbox-gl.css' rel='stylesheet' />

And this link to the source code where executed logs:
03 Dec 11:17:12 DEBUG [geoserver.ows] - Could not lookup context {0] as a workspace, trying as group

I would be glad to read any tips or answers:)


The Black Nebula carrot is a highly attractive open pollinated carrot variety that was bred especially for the home gardener. The dark purple roots can be eaten fresh, roasted, steamed or used for dye. After the carrots grow too large to eat leave them in the garden and use for cut flowers. The white umbels are tinged with lavender on the edges and flower stems. Bees love carrot flowers so they make great food for pollinators.
Carrots bring bountiful nutrients to the table, as well as a burst of color. Carrots are rich in vitamin A, which helps prevent poor eyesight. In addition to being a tasty treat to humans, they also make a healthy treat for pets.
Before Planting: Carrots require well-drained soils, with a pH range of 6.0-7.0. Till the area so you have deep, loose, and fertile. Mix in sandy and peat moss for best results which will help give good moisture retention and straight, smooth roots.
Planting: Sow from early Spring to Midsummer, space seeds 1″ apart (about 15-20 seeds/ft.), 1/4- 1/2″ deep, in single rows 16-24″ apart. Sprinkle the soil surface to keep moist. Don't allow soil to crust before the emergence of seedlings which takes 1-3 weeks, depending on temperature and moisture. Thin young seedlings to 1-2″ apart, depending on root size desired.
Watering: Water at least 1 inch per week.
Fertilizer: Mulch can be spread lightly around the carrots. Keep up on weeding, and fertilizer can be used five weeks after planting.
Days to Maturity: Carrots are ready for harvest two-and-a-half months after planting, when their diameter reaches about a half-inch or desired size.
Harvesting: Carrots may be dug any time after they reach the desired size. Generally the best harvest period lasts about 3 weeks. Cool Fall weather will increase sugars and taste during harvest. Sow new seeds every 2-3 weeks for continuous supply of carrots.
Tips: Plant carrots intended for winter storage about 100 days before expected fall frost. Carrots store best at 32°F and 98% relative humidity.
AVG. Seeding Rate: 1 M/33′, 5M/166′, 25M/830′, 720M/acre at 30 seeds/ft. in rows 24″ apart.


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'Codifying' Government Surveillance, Senate Passes CISA
"If President Obama does not veto this bill, he'll be showing that his administration never truly cared about the open Internet," rights group says
Nadia Prupis, staff writer
The U.S. Senate approved CISA on Tuesday. (Screenshot)
#StopCISA Tweets
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) without any of the proposed amendments that would have strengthened user protections. The bill passed 74-21 (see the roll call here).
Rights groups immediately called for President Barack Obama to veto the bill and vowed to keep pressure up.
"Every senator supporting #CISA today voted against a world with freedom, democracy, and basic human rights," tweeted digital rights organization Fight for the Future. "If President Obama does not veto this bill, he'll be showing that his administration never truly cared about the open Internet."
"This vote will go down as the moment Congress codified the US government's unconstitutional spying. A sad day for the Internet," the group added.
In its response to CISA's passage in the Senate, the Electronic Frontier Foundation marked its disappointment and said: "The bill is fundamentally flawed due to its broad immunity clauses, vague definitions, and aggressive spying authorities."
With the bill now moving to conference committee, EFF expressed no confidence that it would be improved.
"The passage of CISA reflects the misunderstanding many lawmakers have about technology and security," EFF continued. "Computer security engineers were against it. Academics were against it. Technology companies, including some of Silicon Valley's biggest like Twitter and Salesforce, were against it. Civil society organizations were against it. And constituents sent over 1 million faxes opposing CISA to Senators."
EFF vowed that the fight against the bill would continue through the conference committee process, where the group would urge lawmakers to add privacy provisions. "We will never stop fighting for lawmakers to either understand technology or understand when they need to listen to the people who do," the group said.
The official Senate roll call to the vote follows:
Alphabetical by Senator Name
Alexander (R-TN), Yea
Ayotte (R-NH), Yea
Baldwin (D-WI), Nay
Barrasso (R-WY), Yea
Bennet (D-CO), Yea
Blumenthal (D-CT), Yea
Blunt (R-MO), Yea
Booker (D-NJ), Nay
Boozman (R-AR), Yea
Boxer (D-CA), Yea
Brown (D-OH), Nay
Burr (R-NC), Yea
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Capito (R-WV), Yea
Cardin (D-MD), Nay
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Casey (D-PA), Yea
Cassidy (R-LA), Yea
Coats (R-IN), Yea
Cochran (R-MS), Yea
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Coons (D-DE), Nay
Corker (R-TN), Yea
Cornyn (R-TX), Yea
Cotton (R-AR), Yea
Crapo (R-ID), Nay
Cruz (R-TX), Not Voting
Daines (R-MT), Nay
Donnelly (D-IN), Yea
Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Ernst (R-IA), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Fischer (R-NE), Yea Flake (R-AZ), Yea
Franken (D-MN), Nay
Gardner (R-CO), Yea
Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea
Graham (R-SC), Not Voting
Grassley (R-IA), Yea
Hatch (R-UT), Yea
Heinrich (D-NM), Yea
Heitkamp (D-ND), Yea
Heller (R-NV), Nay
Hirono (D-HI), Yea
Hoeven (R-ND), Yea
Inhofe (R-OK), Yea
Isakson (R-GA), Yea
Johnson (R-WI), Yea
Kaine (D-VA), Yea
King (I-ME), Yea
Kirk (R-IL), Yea
Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
Lankford (R-OK), Yea
Leahy (D-VT), Nay
Lee (R-UT), Nay
Manchin (D-WV), Yea
Markey (D-MA), Nay
McCain (R-AZ), Yea
McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Yea
Menendez (D-NJ), Nay
Merkley (D-OR), Nay
Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Moran (R-KS), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
Murphy (D-CT), Yea
Murray (D-WA), Yea Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Paul (R-KY), Not Voting
Perdue (R-GA), Yea
Peters (D-MI), Yea
Portman (R-OH), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Risch (R-ID), Nay
Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Rounds (R-SD), Yea
Rubio (R-FL), Not Voting
Sanders (I-VT), Nay
Sasse (R-NE), Yea
Schatz (D-HI), Yea
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Scott (R-SC), Yea
Sessions (R-AL), Yea
Shaheen (D-NH), Yea
Shelby (R-AL), Yea
Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Sullivan (R-AK), Nay
Tester (D-MT), Nay
Thune (R-SD), Yea
Tillis (R-NC), Yea
Toomey (R-PA), Yea
Udall (D-NM), Nay
Vitter (R-LA), Not Voting
Warner (D-VA), Yea
Warren (D-MA), Nay
Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea
Wicker (R-MS), Yea
Wyden (D-OR), Nay
As the U.S. Senate gears up for a vote on the controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) on Tuesday, privacy advocates are galvanizing an 11th-hour push against the bill they say does nothing more than expand government spying powers.
A slew of digital rights groups including Fight for the Future and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, along with whistleblower Edward Snowden and outspoken CISA opponent Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), joined forces Monday night for an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Reddit, which has also come out against the bill. The session was the latest action by civil society groups, activists, and tech companies calling on Congress to reject CISA for its anti-privacy provisions.
"CISA isn't a cybersecurity bill," Snowden wrote during the Q&A. "It's not going to stop any attacks. It's not going to make us any safer. It's a surveillance bill."
Supporters of CISA—including Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Richard Burr (R-N.C.)—say the bill would make it easier for tech companies to share data in cases of security breaches and other digital attacks. But critics say there aren't enough safeguards in place to protect user privacy and the bill only works to serve intelligence agencies in domestic surveillance operations.
"What it allows is for the companies you interact with every day—visibly, like Facebook, or invisibly, like AT&T—to indiscriminately share private records about your interactions and activities with the government," Snowden wrote on Monday. "CISA allows private companies to immediately share a perfect record of your private activities the instant you click a link, log in, make a purchase, and so on—and the government with reward for doing it by granting them a special form of legal immunity for their cooperation."
Fight for the Future campaign director Evan Greer said the Senate's vote on Tuesday "will go down in history as the moment that lawmakers decided not only what sort of Internet our children and our children's children will have, but what sort of world they will live in."
The campaigns, which are being waged under the hashtag #StopCISA, urge senators to oppose the bill and protect civil liberties.
Greer added, "Every Senator who votes for CISA will be voting for a world without freedom of expression, a world without true democracy, a world without basic human rights. And they will be voting for their own removal from office, because the Internet will not forget which side of history they stood on."
Standing With Labor, Farmers, and Climate Groups on Trump Trade Deal, Sanders Vows to Vote Against NAFTA 2.0
Free Press Advocates Decry 'Unprecedented' and 'Unjustified' Restrictions on Reporter Access to Trump Impeachment Trial
Schumer Praised for Joining Sanders in Voting Against Trump Trade Deal That Ignores Climate Crisis
Let Chief Justice John Roberts Cut the Gordian Knot of Trump's Impeachment Trial
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Q: Creating a BigInteger from String and pad "0"s to it [InputParam1:Decimal Number in String format(for Eg:30),
 InputParam2:Integer to denote number of repeating 0's to append(for Eg:6)]

For converting a number from Decimal to Binary and pad digits to its front I need to perform the following steps:
Step1: BigInteger binary=new BigInteger(InputParam1,2);
-->This works when I define a BigInt with a base 16 (which I just tried when base2 failed) but not with a base 2 like above.
It throws a numberformat exception.
Step 2: String pad=StringUtils.repeat("0",InputParam2);
(to repeat 0 'InputParam2' number of times)
-->This works fine
Step 3: Need to append pad in front of binary(from Step1)
For a BigInteger, I'm not able to get something similar to .append.
So I'm trying to a)convert this BigInteger number to String and b)append pad c)convert back to BigInteger (this step I'm not able to get without creating a new BigInteger)
Any pointers on Step1 and Step3-c would be helpful please.

A: #1 - You haven't said what value you're passing in InputParam1, but my guess is that you're passing in something other than a string containing only '0' in '1' characters.  The 'radix' parameter to the constructor tells the code how to interpret the string you're giving it.  This works fine for me:
BigInteger binary=new BigInteger("1000",2);
System.out.println(binary);

How you construct the number has nothing to do with how you're eventually going to want to represent or display that number. The key idea here is that the representation of a number (hex, decimal, binary) has nothing to do with the number itself, just like leading zeros don't affect the value of number.  1111 binary, f hex, and 15 decimal are all the same number.  If you pass the three of these into BigDecimal's constructor with a radix of 2, 16 and 10 respectively, you'll end up with EXACTLY the same thing in each case.  The object will lose any notion of what kind of representation you used to set it to its initial value.
#3 - There is no concept of a number (int, BigInteger, etc.) with zero padding at the front, just as there's no notion of which base/radix you might use to represent a number visually.  You can think about it conceptually, but that's just a way of displaying the number. It has nothing to do with the number itself.
I hadn't tried it before, but it seems there's no super simple way to format a binary value in Java with leading 0s, like there is for decimal and hex, since String.format() doesn't give a format specifier for binary.  Per this StackOverflow post How to get 0-padded binary representation of an integer in java?, this seems to be about the best way to go, having converted the most accepted answer to work with BigInteger:
String str = String.format("%16s", binary.toString(2)).replace(' ', '0');

So here's all of my sample code, with output:
BigInteger binary=new BigInteger("1000",2);
System.out.println(binary);
String str = String.format("%16s", binary.toString(2)).replace(' ', '0');
System.out.println(str);

Output:
8
0000000000001000


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Wideband compressive beamforming tomography for drive-by large-scale acoustic source mapping
Cagdas Tuna, Douglas L. Jones, Shengkui Zhao, Thi Ngoc Tho Nguyen
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Speech and Hearing Science
Coordinated Science Lab
Noise-mapping is an effective sound visualization tool for the identification of urban noise hotspots, which is crucial to taking targeted measures to tackle environmental noise pollution. This paper develops a high-resolution wideband acoustic source mapping methodology using a portable microphone array, where the joint localization and power spectrum estimation of individual sources sparsely distributed over a large region are achieved by tomographic imaging with the multi-frequency delay-and-sum beamforming power outputs from multiple array positions. Exploiting the fact that a wideband source has a common spatial signal-support across the frequency spectrum, two-dimensional tomographic maps are produced by applying compressive sensing techniques including group least absolute shrinkage selection operator formulation and sparse Bayesian learning to promote group sparsity over multiple frequency bands. The high-resolution mapping is demonstrated with experimental data recorded with a microphone array mounted atop an electric vehicle driven along a road while playing audio clips from a loudspeaker positioned within the adjacent open field.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Published - Jun 1 2018
beamforming
power spectra
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Acoustics and Ultrasonics
Tuna, C., Jones, D. L., Zhao, S., & Nguyen, T. N. T. (2018). Wideband compressive beamforming tomography for drive-by large-scale acoustic source mapping. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(6), 3899-3911. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5042214
Wideband compressive beamforming tomography for drive-by large-scale acoustic source mapping. / Tuna, Cagdas; Jones, Douglas L.; Zhao, Shengkui; Nguyen, Thi Ngoc Tho.
In: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 143, No. 6, 01.06.2018, p. 3899-3911.
Tuna, C, Jones, DL, Zhao, S & Nguyen, TNT 2018, 'Wideband compressive beamforming tomography for drive-by large-scale acoustic source mapping', Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 143, no. 6, pp. 3899-3911. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5042214
Tuna C, Jones DL, Zhao S, Nguyen TNT. Wideband compressive beamforming tomography for drive-by large-scale acoustic source mapping. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2018 Jun 1;143(6):3899-3911. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5042214
Tuna, Cagdas ; Jones, Douglas L. ; Zhao, Shengkui ; Nguyen, Thi Ngoc Tho. / Wideband compressive beamforming tomography for drive-by large-scale acoustic source mapping. In: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2018 ; Vol. 143, No. 6. pp. 3899-3911.
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Missed some key industry developments? Get up to speed with our recap of the most read and shared stories across Campaign, Marketing, Media Week, PRWeek and The Wall.
Seasonal greetings: B&Q, Morrisons and Sainsbury's unveiled their Christmas ads
Morrisons showed that John Lewis doesn't have a monopoly on making a splash with its Christmas ad, as its surreal and somewhat downbeat spot (Campaign, 12 November) turned everyone's heads.
There was less angst in Sainsbury's Christmas world (Campaign, 13 November), though even its harmonious tone may not be enough to avoid the complaints which hit the likes of Morrisons and Boots (Campaign, 13 November).
Is there a more challenging time to join a supermarket's social media team than the post-Christmas consumer grump? Coca-Cola's interactive manager Jude Brooks will be trying to "open happiness" among Tesco customers in January (Marketing, 13 November).
Others already looking ahead to 2013 include ITV, which will be unveiling a slinky new on-screen identity (Marketing, 16 November), Tumblr, which hopes to entice a few UK advertisers (Marketing, 13 November), and Karmarama and B&Q, who paired up this week (Campaign, 16 November).
Karmarama are no doubt glad B&Q doesn't sell bikes what with this week's backlash against the rather "edgy" cycling safety ads and website created by a member of its staff (Campaign, 14 November).
Meanwhile, that bastion of seriousness, the Coca-Cola corporate website, was transformed into an all-singing, all-dancing "dynamic, digital magazine" (Marketing, 14 November).
Editing of a different sort put PR agency Finsbury in the news after it was revealed to have anonymously changed the Wikipedia entry of its billionaire oligarch client Alisher Usmanov (PRWeek, 12 November).
Finally, if you're one of Marketing's 30 brightest young marketing stars (Marketing, 13 November) you now have something to stick on your own Wikipedia entry, should you dare.
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Sheeple (2018)
The story is about a family of three brothers and a sister in the suburbs of the city's poverty. Their elder brother owns a drug-producing kitchen and presides over the group, like a shepherd for sheep.
Movie Title: Sheeple (2018)
Director: Houman Seyyedi
Actors: Farhad Aslani, Farid Sajjadi Hosseini, Ladan Zhaveh Vand, Mahyar Rahat-Talab, Marjan Etefaghian, Navid Mohammadzade, Navid Pourfaraj, Nazanin Bayati
21 Grams (2003)
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of…
The Guilty (2000)
A young person gets hired to kill someone completely unknown, by someone equally unknown. Or is that true? Nothing is what it seems.
Country: UK, USA, Canada
The Raven (1935)
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter who in no way wants him. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically…
Genre: Crime, Horror, Science Fiction
Matchstick Men (2003)
A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
Spanish Judges (2000)
A con-artist hires two low-lifes to cover him during a deal, ending with three criminals, two dueling pistols, and one night they'll never forget
The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Science Fiction
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
West Side Story (2020)
A remake of the 1961 film about two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
Genre: Crime, Music, Romance
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed…
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Trailer: Sheeple (2018)